Dawn Chorus Event

26 April 2008

19 people got up with the lark, to listen to the dawn chorus at 5am in the Community Woodland, fortified with hot coffee and rolls. It was a beautiful clear morning and two tawny owls called to each other across the woodland, as the sun rose. A last bat was seen and a rather surprising mallard duck, joined a wren to start the first wave of calls, including a robin and dozens of blackbirds. John Woolliams identified 21different species of bird for us, repeating their calls, and we all managed to identify a local cockerel. A song thrush and blackcap joined the chorus at the end of the hour, and a swallow was seen, flying overhead.

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